Automatic ticket registering and indicating device.



A. KIPARSKI.

AUTOMATIC TICKET REGISTERING AND INDIOATING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 19, 1913.-

1,083,840. Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

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j a I A. KIPARSKI.

AUTOMATIC TICKET REGISTERING AND INDIOATING DEVICE.

APPLICATION IILBD MAY 19, 1913.

1,083,840. Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

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UNITED STATES arana. onnrciz.

ALEXANDER KIPARSKI, OF ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

AUTOMATIC TICKET REGISTERING AND INDICATING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed October 19, 1911, Serial No. 655,525. Divided and this application filed Kay 19, 1918. Serial No. 768,593.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALEXANDER KIrARsKI, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at St. Petersburg, Russia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Ticket Registering and Indicating De vices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to automatic ticket registering apparatus, and it consists in the constructions, combinations and arrangements herein described and claimed.

This application is a division of an application, Serial No. 655525, filed by me October 19, 1911, for an improved apparatus for automatically totaling the number of tickets of different classes delivered from various ticket boxes.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple apparatus adapted to operate with certainty for automatically registering the numbers of tickets delivered from differentboxes.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application and in which similar reference symbols indicate corresponding parts in the several views :Figure 1 is a vertical section of a ticket box, showing the counting mechanism in its normal position; Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the position of the counting mechanism during the withdrawal of a ticket; Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the position of the counting mechanism upon the complete withdrawal of a ticket; Fig. 4 shows a preferred form of ticket; and Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view, illustrating my improved registering apparatus provided with four boxes for tickets of different classes.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates a box provided with a downwardly-extended front wall 2, against which a series of tickets 3 are maintained by a spring-pressed platen 4, in position for successive withdrawal; said tickets being provided with end notches, or openings, as shown in Fig. 4. A lever 5 is pivoted at 6 in the lower compartment of the box 1, and connected to a slidably-mounted rod 7 carrying a contact plate 8 for engaging a pair of contacts 9 and 10; said lever 5 being normally maintained in vertical position with its upper finger 11 retracted by a spring 12 connected to said lever and box. A bent lever 13 is pivotally supported at 14, and connected to said lever 5 by a slotted link 15 and a spring 16; said bent lever 13 having its horizontal arm normally maintained in engagement with the downwardly-extended front box wall 2 by the combined action of gravity and of said springs 12 and 16. The lower end 17 of the lever 13 constitutes an armature for the pole 18 of an electro-magnet 19; said magnet being connected in a normally-opened shunt circuit hereinafter described, from any suitable source of electrical encrgy,-such as a battery 20. One terminal of the battery 20 is connected by a lead wire 21 with a brush 22 in engagement with a continuously rotating collector ring 23, which latter carries and is in electrical connection with a rotating contact 24 adapted to successively contact with a series of insulated segments 25, 26, 27, 28, etc. The other terminal of the battery 20 has a lead wire 29 containing an elect-rioally-actuated registering device 30 for registering the total number of tickets withdrawn from all of the several ticket boxes.

The segment 25 is connected to the battery lead 29 by a circuit 30, which contains in series an electromagnet 31, a pair of normally-opened contacts 32 and 33, and an electrically-actuated device 34 for independently indicating the number of tickets withdrawn from the ticket box A. The segment 26 is similarly connected to the battery lead 29 by a circuit 35 containing in series an electro-magnet 36, a pair of normally-opened contacts 37 and 38, and an electrically-actuated device 39 for indicating the number of tickets withdrawn from the ticket box B. The segment 27 is similarly connected to the battery lead 29 by a circuit 40 containing in series an electro-magnet 41, a pair of normally-opened contacts 42 and 43, and an electrically-actuated device 44 for indicating the number of tickets withdrawn from the ticket box 0. The segment 28 is similarly connected to the battery lead 29 by a circuit 45 containing in series an electro-magnet 46, a pair of normally-open contacts 47 and 48, and an elec trically-actuated device 49 for indicating the number of tickets withdrawn from the box D.

The normally-open contacts 9 and 10 and Patented Jan. 6,1914.

electro-magn'ets 19 of the several ticket boxes 'are connected in multiple series in ashunt circuit 50 of the battery 20. As shown in Fig. 5, said contacts 9 and 10 and electromagnet 19 of the ticket box A are connected togaid shunt circuit 50 by a branch circuit 51, which contains in series a pair of normolly-closed contacts 52 and 53 and an electro-magnet 54 adapted to attract an armature 55 for closing the normally-open contacts 32 and 33. .The contacts 9 and 10 and electro-magnet19 of the ticket box B are connected to the shunt circuit 50 by a branch circuit 56 which contains in series a pair of normally-closed contacts 57 and 58 and an electro-magnet 59 adapted to attract an armature 60 for closing the normally-open contacts 37 and 38. The contacts 9 and 10 and electro-magnet 19 of the ticket box C are connected to the shunt circuit 50 by a branch 61 which contains in series a pair of normally-closed contacts 62 and 63 and an electro-magnet 64 adapted to attract an armature 65 for closing the normally-open contacts 42 and 43. The contacts 9 and 10 and electro-magnet 19 of the ticket box D are connected to the-shunt circuit 50 by abranch circuit 66, which contains in series a pair of normally-closed contacts 67 and 68 and an electro-ma net 69 adapted to attract an armature 70 or closing the normally-open contacts 47 and 48.

In the operation of my above described invention, a ticket 3 upon being withdrawn from the box A will enga e the horizontal arm of the bent lever 13 an' swing said lever to bring its armature 17 in close proximity to the electroemagnet core 18. Such swing of the bent lever 13 acts through the spring 16 to swing the lever 5 and yieldingly press the finger 11 thereof against theticket during withdrawal of the latter; said ticket acting as a sto to prevent the full swing of said lever 5 or shifting thecontact plate 8 into engagement with the normally-open contacts 9 and 10. Upon further withdrawal of the ticket 3, the extended spring 16 will force the finger 11 of the lever 5 throu h the notch or opening formed in the end 0% the ticket and into engagement with the front box wall 2 for preventing withdrawal of additional tickets from the box. This full forward swing of the lever 5 shifts the contact plate -8 into engagement with the contacts 9 and 10, and thus closes the branch circuit 51 of the battery shunt circuit 50, therebyenergizing the electro-magnets 19 and 54 in said branch circuit. The electro-magnet 19 thereupon attracts the armature 17 of the bent lever 13 and swings said lever to firmly maintain the lever 5 in its position of extreme forward swing, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. -Simultaneously, the electro-magnet 54 attracts its armature 55 to close the normally open congized and attract its armature 71 to open the normally-closed contacts 52 and 53 in the branch circuit 51; thereby breaking said branch circuit 51 and denergizing the magnet 19 and. permitting the levers 5 and 13 to be returned by the spring 12 to their normal posit-ion ready for the withdrawal of a succeeding ticket from the box, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

The operation of my invention in the withdrawal of tickets from the boxes B, C,

and D will be exactly similar to that just described, and in each case, the withdrawn ticket will be registered on the corresponding indicating devices 39, 44 or 49 and also on the total-registering device 30.

I have shown an auxiliary source of electrical energy, such as a battery 72, connected by a circuit 73 to the total-registering device 30 and provided with a normally open switch 74; the indicating devices 34, 39 and 44, 49 being connected in multiple series in said auxiliary circuit 73 by branch circuits 75 and 76. This provides a convenient means for setting the indicating and registering devices to zero.

I have illustrated and described preferred and satisfactory constructions, but obviously changes could be made within the spirit and scope of my invention.

I claim v 1. In an automatic ticket registering apparatus, the combination of a main electric circuit, registering devices in said circuit, a normally-open swltch in said circuit, electro magnetic means for closing said switch, a normally-open control circuit for said electro -magnetic means, a ticket remptacle, mechanism actuated by the withdrawal of a ticket from said receptacle for closing said control circuit to close said normally-open switch, and a make and break device in said main circuit adapted to close the latter in .the closed position of said switch;

2. In an automatic ticket registering apparatus, the combinationof a main electric circuit, registering devices in said circuit, a normally-open switch in said circuit, electromagnetic means for closing said switch, a normally-open control circuit for said electaro-magnetic means, a ticket receptacle, breaking said control circuit upon closure of mechanism actuated by the withdrawal of said main circuit.

a ticket from said receptacle for closing In testimony whereof, I aflix-my signasaid controlll circluift to close said norgallyture, in presence of two witnesses.

open switc an or maintainin sai circuit closed, a make and break dei ice in said i ALEXANDER KIPARSKI' main circuit adapted to close the latter in Witnesses:

the closed position of said switch, and elec- H. A. LovIAcmNE,

taro-magnetic means in said main circuit for AUG. MIGHIS. 

